package de.metas.handlingunits.attribute;

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import org.adempiere.mm.attributes.api.IAttributeSet;

import de.metas.util.IMultitonService;

/**
 * Service used to wrap various objects and create {@link IWeightable} interfaces for them.
 *
 * @author tsa
 *
 */
public interface IWeightableFactory extends IMultitonService
{
	/**
	 * Creates the {@link IWeightable} wrapper for given {@link IAttributeSet}.
	 *
	 * If {@link IAttributeSet} is not suitable to be weightable then <code>null</code> will be returned.
	 */
	IWeightable createWeightableOrNull(IAttributeSet attributeSet);

}
